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Lately, I’ve been setting up a home computer backup system using rdiff-backup. I use rdiff-backup because it stores incremental backups and it can send the backups to a remote server over SSH. This means that, once you get passwordless SSH running, you can set up various cron jobs to backup your files to [...]

This article assumes, for the most part, a reasonable familiarity with sudo, cp, mv, and other simple command line commands. It also assumes that you backup your important data, as any experienced computer user will tell you to. In addition to your important data, you should backup the new versions of the discussed [...]

The mantra of the Linux world is “Always backup important data!!!” This is usually instructed directly before installing Linux onto a system, or otherwise doing anything that could even remotely corrupt anything. Better to be safe than sorry.
Backing up a Thunderbird or Firefox profile is important, too. Especially if you’re like me, [...]